Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 05:11 PM 10/4/2000 -0400, Steve LeHuray wrote: >>OK. I think I know what happened. Sherry was probably in her shop at the >>back of the house and did not hear the PO man knock. Usually the PO will not >>just leave a package (I think that is a PO rule) whereas UPS & FedX will >>after they get to know you. Sherry has a safe place on her front porch where >>they leave and pick up packages. Sherry can be a little testy about having >>to go to the PO to pick up things. > > Well, UPS left an $8,000 lens on my front porch one day when I was at > lunch, and I live in a high-crime neighborhood. I will not voluntarily > employ that bunch of losers again -- and, yes, "signature required" was > right on the tag. They just dumped it. FedEx is even worse -- those bozos > at Leica USA returned a repaired lens to me one time to a PO Box via FedEx, > and it took FedEx THREE WEEKS to figure out where I was -- and I'm in the > phone book, for heaven's sakes! > > Use the Post Office. Visit the Post Office Box daily. Avoid UPS and FedEx > at all costs! They are horrid! (They probably are great for Eddie Bauer > and Victoria's Secret, but I order from neither, alas!, so I cannot tell.) > > Marc All I can say is that in 20 years of fairly heavy FedX, UPS usage I have never had any kind of problem. And I have had good luck with the US Post Office including recently sending two packages (containing Leicas) to Japan via Express Mail. Each package took exactly 2 days door-to-door and I was able to track the entire delivery right up to the minute of arrival on the internet. Amazing. Steve Annapolis